Lisa E. Wright is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program and an affiliate faculty member of the Medicine, Science, and Humanities program at Johns Hopkins University. Her writing courses center on Black maternal health, reproductive justice, and Black midwives. She is a Faculty Fellow with Johns Hopkins’ Center for Social Concern. (Link to academic page)

Wright is working on a manuscript “The Ring of Fire: A Memoir” which chronicles her homebirths with her midhusband. It further examines Black women’s birthing choices, with a particular focus on the delegitimation of Black midwives, and on creating safe birthing spaces inside, and outside medical institutions.

She was the recipient of the 2022 Women’s Faculty Council Student Research Award at Oklahoma State University, the 2022 Geneva Smitherman Award for Research in Black Language, Literacies, Cultures, and Rhetorics, and the 2024 Mu Psi Student Chapter Faculty and Staff Leadership Award at Johns Hopkins University.

Before joining Hopkins, Wright co-founded the Talking Justice Project, an interactive workshop that teaches antiracist strategies for writing center consultants and teachers. Using antiracist pedagogy and inclusive writing center pedagogy, they provided attendees with strategies to address problematic ideas while also maintaining a learning environment. Her current project intersects faith and religious identities in our writing spaces. The co-edited collection The Politics of Faith and Secularism in Writing Centers and Writing Studies is under review at Utah State University Press. 

Wright was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a B.A. in English from Coppin State University and an M.A. from The Ohio State University in African and African American studies. Wright completed her doctoral work at Oklahoma State University in English, specializing in Creative Writing Nonfiction and Black feminist literature. Her work has appeared in College English, The Writing Center Journal, Praxis, Axis, and Hippocampus Magazine.